Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for BRAMPTON-BRYAN

BRAMPTON-BRYAN, a village and a township in the district of Knighton and county of Hereford; and a parish partly also in the county of Radnor. The village stands on the river Teme, 3 miles ESE of Bucknell r. station, and 10 W by S of Ludlow; and has a post office, of the name of Brampton-Bryan, Herefordshire, and a fair on 21 and 22 June. It dates from remote times; and had a castle built by the Norman Bryan de Brampton, held long by the Harleys, and besieged and destroyed by the royalists in the civil war.-The township includes the village. Pop., 158. Houses, 29.—The parish contains also the townships of Boresford and Pedwardine, and the lordship-of Stanage. Acres, 5,314. Real property, with Buckton and Coxall, £6,148. Pop., 430. Houses, 83. The property is divided among a few. Brampton Park is the seat of the Earl of Oxford. Coxwell Knoll has vestiges of a camp which was occupied by Caractacus prior to his defeat by O. Scapula. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Hereford. Value, £300.* Patron, Lady Langdale. The church was injured in the civil war, and had long a ruined tower, but was beautified in 1859 by the erection of a neat cupola; and it contains the monuments of Lord Treasurer Harley, the founder of the Harleian Library Charities, £19.


(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))

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Feature Description: "a village and a township"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Herefordshire AncC
Place: Brampton Bryan

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